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8 Cards in this Set
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Babi explains the importance of a woman's education, and how marriage can wait |
“Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance” (114) |
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Purple Hibiscus Kambili watches Papa tear up the painting of Papa-Nnukwu |
“I dashed to the pieces on the floor as if to save them, as if saving them would mean saving Papa Nnukwu, I sank to the floor, lay on the pieces of paper… I lay there, I did nothing” (210).
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Babi explains the future of women after the war |
“And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as men, maybe even more.” (114)
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Purple Hibiscus Mama and Aunty Ifeoma talk about marriage |
“... sometimes life begins when marriage ends” (75)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Laila decides to keep the baby |
“Laila already saw the sacrifices a mother had to make. Virtue was only the first” (219).
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Purple Hibiscus Papa scolds Kambili for staying at a house with a "heathen", her grandfather |
“‘You should strive for perfection. You should not see sin and walk right into it.’” (194).
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam prepares to kill Rasheed |
“She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time that she was deciding the course of her own life”
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Purple Hibiscus Kambili is told she can go join the others to play football at the stadium, Aunty Ifeoma reassures her |
“She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside of me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles”
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